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It's all those 'ambulance chasing' lawyers isn't it, you now have to warn everyone about everything, otherwise you end up locked up and bankrupt.

You know the sort of thing . .

"Have you trodden in a cow pat in the dark while rustling cattle? Call us now and compensation will be swift and satisfactory"

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They probably do it to cover those with mental impairments/disabilities, such as people with dementia etc

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No, they dont, Carth is probably closer.

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Been announced today that social media companies will now have to robustly check that their minimum age policies are adhered to, that there will be protection from groomers, that there will be safer feeds and that there will be an end to product testing on children.

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keep clutching at that last straw :rofl:

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You're not saying that this is a bad move, surely?

I think that it would have been better to ban U16 or U18's from social media, but this was rejected by Parliament. By doing this at least younger children will be protected, so it's a fair compromise.

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Yes, great idea, it's much like when those in power stopped us having coal fires & wood burners, scrapped all the coal fired power stations, spent £billions on Solar Energy and Wind Turbines, car manufacturers developed much cleaner internal combustion engines, and now people are virtually being forced to buy electric cars and those silly warm air pump things.


Has the planet stopped warming up yet?

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Nope.

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it has here it's bloody cold

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Throw another lump of coal on the . . . oh wait, maybe it's gonna have to be an extra bar used on that 'oh so efficient' electric fire then.

;)

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"Been announced today that social media companies will now have to robustly check that their minimum age policies are adhered to, that there will be protection from groomers, that there will be safer feeds and that there will be an end to product testing on children.”

But that is all incredibly vague, just what constitutes a robust check? There will be protection from groomers - how? There will be safer feeds - which means what? An end to product testing on children - again, what does that mean, is it even a thing?

It’s not a bad move in itself, it's just a completely ineffective move. It will achieve nothing. It all comes around to the problem of age verification - just how do you prove that an individual is an adult (for arguments sake)? Well you have to turn over all sorts of personal information to some third party (which may or may not have ties to senior government officials) and whose security may well be as leaky as a sieve. I can just imagine the fallout from when (when not if) one of these providers gets hacked and all of their data stolen and the hackers now have the information that say, one Richard.Coulter has a login for ‘Spanking-Nuns-Monthly.com’, or whatever!

You can see the actually problem here?

OK look, I’m sure the vast majority of posters on here, do share your concerns about the impact of social media on children. And there is one excellent way of addressing it - education, ideally by the parents but by schools as well.

Vague legislation, will do nothing, education will.

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More to the point here, how do you prove someone is 13, as opposed to 12. Request more personal information on kids now ? :erm:

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Ensuring a young persons online safety by making them reveal their personal details to anyone that asks is definitely the right way to go . . . says nobody with more than 7 brain cells.

It's just the typical knee jerk reaction of the Government and its army of experts, not just in this case but many over the previous years.

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You make a good point, but the issue is not really making a young person reveal their details, it’s making you and I and everyone else over 18, hand over personal details to some third party (probably the cheapest contractor - cheapest for a reason) and trust that they have a degree of competence and won’t allow all of that personal information to be hacked - hint, they won’t.

Do expect that within a year this company will be subject to a ‘sophisticated attack’ - which generally means that some clown (probably in higher management - because the rules don’t apply to them) clicked on a link in an obvious phishing email and coughed up their credentials. And naturally because they are the Senior Vice-President of Marketing and toilet paper, they absolutely have to have full admin rights over the entire system.

Cynic? Me? Absolutely not!